One dead, 3 injured after shootings at Mississippi universities

At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at a university campus in Mississippi on the night of Oct 11, as a separate shooting outside a college football stadium in the state capital left a child injured, the authorities said.

- Rylee Kirk and Mark Walker

The shootings, both at historically black institutions, occurred within about 24 hours of three other shootings across rural Mississippi that left at least eight people dead. Two of those earlier shootings occurred on public high school campuses that were hosting Friday night football games.

On Oct 11, one person was found dead and two others with apparent gunshot wounds after a shooting was reported around 6.30pm local time near a building at Alcorn State University in Lorman, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said in a statement.

The university later said on social media that the campus was closed until further notice.